{"id":128007,"date":"2021-09-23T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/astronomers-have-discovered-a-gigantic-sphere-shaped-cavity-in-space"},"modified":"2021-09-23T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:22:52","slug":"astronomers-have-discovered-a-gigantic-sphere-shaped-cavity-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/astronomers-have-discovered-a-gigantic-sphere-shaped-cavity-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Have Discovered a Gigantic Sphere-Shaped Cavity in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-discovered-a-gigantic-sphere-shaped-cavity-in-space.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers analyzing 3D maps of the shapes and sizes of nearby molecular clouds have discovered a gigantic <a href=\"https:\/\/faun.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/czucker\/Paper_Figures\/sbialy\/pertau_superbubble.html\">cavity in space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sphere-shaped void, described today in the <em>Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em>, spans about 150 parsecs \u2014 nearly 500 light years \u2014 and is located on the sky among the constellations Perseus and Taurus. The research team, which is based at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian, believes the cavity was formed by ancient supernovae that went off some 10 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The mysterious cavity is surrounded by the Perseus and Taurus molecular clouds \u2014 regions in space where stars form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers analyzing 3D maps of the shapes and sizes of nearby molecular clouds have discovered a gigantic cavity in space. The sphere-shaped void, described today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, spans about 150 parsecs \u2014 nearly 500 light years \u2014 and is located on the sky among the constellations Perseus and Taurus. The research team, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}